To my Southern friends

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Gary:
 
My resource material is at home and I'm on the road, so I can  only give you 
an overview.  Others will I'm sure fill in the  details.
 
This line is of course the former Washington-Atlanta main line  of  the 
Southern Railway.  In days gone by it was all double track  but  now mostly single 
track with passing sidings in the area you'll  traverse.  In addition to the 
trains via Greensboro and Charlotte, trains  via Lynchburg, Roanoke, and 
Bristol used this line as far south as Lynchburg,  where they switched to the N&W.  
Monroe, VA, north of Lynchburg, was  the northern end of the division that 
began in Spencer and also the actual  engine change location between N&W and 
Southern power for the trains via  Bristol.
 
This line can lay claim to being truly "fabled in  story and song," as it's 
the route chronicled in the song "Wreck of the Old  97".  
_http://www.blueridgeinstitute.org/ballads/old97song.html_ 
(http://www.blueridgeinstitute.org/ballads/old97song.html)    (Until I researched this web site I didn't know there 
were ten verses; I'd only  heard verses three through six and ten before!)  
Reciting (or singing if  you're up to it) the lyrics as you traverse the locations 
mentioned in the song  might be entertaining for your patrons.
 
Dave Phelps
 
  In a message dated 10/28/2007  12:37:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
nw-mailing-list at nwhs.org writes:

Gentlemen
 
This weekend I will be participating in the Spencer-Charlottesville  Autumn 
Leaf Special, and I will be working the Northern Pacific dome car, BUT,  I have 
never really been around this particular line. I was hoping that  some of you 
would please email me a brief history of the line, along with  some points of 
interest so I can help the passengers enjoy the trip even  more.
 
email me at:  _nsheavyduty at yahoo.com_ (mailto:nsheavyduty at yahoo.com) 
 
Thanks,
 
Gary Price
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